GLW issue 288, published 1997-09-03.

How the Liberals sheltered Nazis

How the Liberals sheltered Nazis By Norm Dixon The return of Konrad Kalejs, an Australian citizen deported from Canada as a World War II Nazi collaborator and leading member of a death squad responsible for the slaughter of 20,000

Hunter pride exhibition

By Shane Hopkinson Earlier this month a groundbreaking exhibition opened at Newcastle Regional Museum. "Hunter Pride: A Celebration of the Lives and Loves of the Hunter Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Community" is the first community sponsored,

Arguments for socialism: Competition and cooperation

Competition and cooperation By Allen Myers Australia has to be competitive internationally, we are continually told whenever governments want to lower wages or cut social security spending. Within Australia, businesses have to be

and ain't i a woman?: ACTU: rhetoric versus reality

ACTU: rhetoric versus reality This week the ACTU is holding its biennial congress in Brisbane. If previous congresses, and the agenda of this one, are anything to go by, delegates (very few of them from the grassroots of the union

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Australian News

Activists arrested as climate criminals go free

CANBERRA — Twenty members of the Greenpeace Climate Rescue Team were arrested and charged with trespass on August 20 after disrupting a conference here. They were protesting against the federal government's refusal to join world efforts to cut

IRC decision bolsters NTEU campaign

By Jeremy Smith On August 20 the federal Industrial Relations Commission handed down an important decision on tenure and conditions for casual and contract staff working in tertiary education. Since 1995, the National Tertiary Education and

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International News

Resistance in Iran grows

By Rupen Savoulian The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the international representative of a coalition of exiled Iranian political organisations, reported rioting in the cities of Nayriz and Abadeh in Fars province,

Winston's wine box is empty

By Russell Norman WELLINGTON — Auckland has two great monuments to government: the Obelisk, commemorating Michael Joseph Savage, and the Skytower Casino, commemorating Roger Douglas. Savage was prime minister of the first Labour government,

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Editorial

Equalise the age of consent

Equalise the age of consent The NSW Wood Royal Commission recommendation that age of consent laws in the state be set at 16 years for both heterosexual and homosexual sex has flushed out many a conservative moralist and homophobe. Justice

Fight to preserve Jabiluka

Fight to preserve Jabiluka As expected, the federal government has given Energy Resources of Australia the go-ahead to mine uranium at Jabiluka in Kakadu. It is a short-sighted, stupid and potentially dangerous decision. In making the

Cultural Dissent

The 'restructuring' of a community

By Bronwen Beechey As a labour researcher with the metalworkers' union, Peter Ewer went to the Latrobe Valley in 1988 to run shop stewards' training courses and "convince workers of the merits of award restructuring and the benefits of higher

I'm not a parasite, I'm an investor

Wall Street — How It Works and for WhomBy Doug HenwoodVerso, 1997, 372 pp. Review by Eva Cheng The US-based progressive periodical Left Business Observer has for years been a valuable source of information and sharp analysis of the US economy

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